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Who Are You Calling Old? Negotiating Old Age Identity in the Elderly Consumption Ensemble

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Barnhart, Michelle and Peñaloza, Lisa

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As the elderly population increases, more family, friends, and paid service providers assist them with consumption activities in a group that the authors conceptualize as the elderly consumption ensemble (ECE). Interviews with members of eight ECEs demonstrate consumption in advanced age as a group phenomenon rather than an individual one,...

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Barnhart and Lisa Peñaloza Reviewed work(s): Source: Journal of Consumer Research, (-Not available-), p
Living US Capitalism: The Normalization of Credit/Debt

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Penaloza, Lisa and Barnhart, Michelle

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This research develops a theoretical account of cultural meanings as integral mechanisms in the normalization of credit/debt. Analysis derives these meanings from the credit/debt discourses and practices of 27 white middle-class consumers in the United States and tracks their negotiation in patterns and trajectories in social and market domains. Discussion...

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LISA PEÑALOZA MICHELLE BARNHART This research develops a theoretical account of cultural meanings as